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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Social Sustenance: Nurturing Change, Daniel Aguilera
Social Sustenance: Nurturing Change, Daniel Aguilera
2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL
The site’s direct connection to S. Grand Blvd. and the existing building are the fabric on which program, design and intent were concentrated. The building presented for adaptive reuse was originally the South Buick Auto Center, a structure capable of vehicle occupation on each floor, including the roof. The elevated rate of youth crime and the lack of activity space in the community brought about an idea for an alternative to re-incarceration, low employment rates and low educational and economic mobility for those individuals convicted of crimes between the ages of 17-25. Social Sustenance proposes a food truck incubator catered …
The Third Space: Creating A Community Anchor, Suzannah Grasel
The Third Space: Creating A Community Anchor, Suzannah Grasel
2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL
Third Space is a civic space that proposes journalism as a programmatic outlet for the Gravois Park and immigrant communities of St. Louis. Throughout history, journalism has been an invaluable platform and voice for marginalized communities through Foreign Correspondents Clubs [FCC]. FCCs are hubs where journalists, correspondents, diplomats, and citizens convene within the community. In these spaces community and club members can create periodicals, host forums and exhibitions, network with fellow members, learn about topical issues, reference libraries, and generally engage with their community in a meaningful way. Third Space provides these resources concurrently with a digital library to the …
Mountain Climbing Childhood, Xinzhi Pan
Mountain Climbing Childhood, Xinzhi Pan
2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL
The proposal for the reuse of the Donna Brown Building was the result of the analysis of the public space layout on S. Grand Ave. This included an understanding of the qualities of the promenade created in the S. Grand Commercial District through a “street diet”, and the beautification of the streetscape. I was in particular interested in studying parking as it clearly affects walkability and circulation. Through a series of studies in plan and section, I was able to look at the different parking typologies that exist along Grand. It was apparent in this study that as a pedestrian …
Early Beginnings: Inclusive Early Head Start Program, Amanda Malone
Early Beginnings: Inclusive Early Head Start Program, Amanda Malone
2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL
Gravois Park is a unique neighborhood for its density and diversity, yet it is troubled with issues of economic disparity and crime at a rate similar to north St. Louis. Research shows that low income and education lead into crime. Gravois Park confirms this by showing the lowest education levels of degrees attained within the City of St. Louis, along with some of the highest high school dropout rates for the public schools. School readiness, particularly among poor children, may help prevent the cascade of consequences of early academic failure and school behavioral problems. Specifically, the years before a child …
Interactive Education, Savannah Hecker
Interactive Education, Savannah Hecker
2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL
The building was constructed in 1926 as the Southside Automobile Company’s service center. The automotive industry has been an integral part of St. Louis’ history and precedents along Grand Blvd. My intention is to transform the building back to the historic use, bringing the lively nature of the automotive industry back to this area of Grand. The automotive service in St. Louis is still thriving and within the St. Louis area, and I propose a Trade School for Automobile Service. The School will have a service learning so parents and students will be able to work during their training. There …
Trade(In) Space: International Incubator, Lindsley Etienne
Trade(In) Space: International Incubator, Lindsley Etienne
2016 Fall Inclusion and Neighborhood Resilience with IISTL
Immigrants and refugees come into the United States with vast amount of skills and traits, but are not always granted the opportunity to showcase them. The International Business Incubator creates the opportunity for incoming refugees and immigrants to have a space that allows them to startup their own businesses. Incubation is defined as something that develops or produces or hatches. The space proposed is experienced through physical and visual connections that provide the guest with the ability to witness the production. The Incubator provides a series of spaces that our linked to classrooms, where guest can come learn how to …
Inclusion & Neighborhood Resilience: Designing For Equity In Post Industrial Cities, Catalina Freixas
Inclusion & Neighborhood Resilience: Designing For Equity In Post Industrial Cities, Catalina Freixas
Books and Monographs
For this studio, the SFS collaborated with The International Institute of St. Louis in a call for innovative design ideas to re-imagine the former building of the IISTL located at 3654 South Grand Ave. This architectural piece was built in 1930s as a car repair and dealership, with hydraulic elevators that lifted the cars from the repair shop at the lower level to the parking at the rooftop. Later, the building was renovated into doctor’s office space until 1999 when the Institute renovated it for office space use. The studio challenge was to create an iconic adaptive reuse for the …
The Vital Ambiguity Of Surface: Culturally Determined Notions Of Metaphor And Performance In Contemporary Building Material, Christopher T. Campbell
The Vital Ambiguity Of Surface: Culturally Determined Notions Of Metaphor And Performance In Contemporary Building Material, Christopher T. Campbell
Graduate School of Art Theses
This thesis investigates the systems and information decipherable within a material surface; more specifically, those ideas of value, performance, and function we may infer from the surface of contemporary building materials. When these materials are reduced to their flattened image, the cosmetic facade of a surface has the capacity to inform as well as deceive. Additionally, we may see in materials outward properties, such as color or tactility, the capacity for metaphor and the application of a symbolic personhood. This thesis seeks to comprehend the ways in which these expectations become fodder for complication and paradox, and promote a perceptual …
Can We Walk? Environmental Supports For Active Travel In India, Deepti Adlakha
Can We Walk? Environmental Supports For Active Travel In India, Deepti Adlakha
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Background: Rapid rates of increase of obesity, diabetes, and associated chronic and co-morbid non-communicable diseases (e.g., cardiovascular diseases and some cancers) are being documented in India, yet in-country evidence-based research of associated risk factors is lacking. Physical activity has been identified as a preventative factor to counter the risk from obesity-related non-communicable diseases. Built environment supports for physical activity represent promising strategies to curb the rise in non-communicable diseases. Mounting research evidence suggests that the built environment can facilitate or constrain physical activity. However, a majority of this research has been conducted in developed nations. Built environment correlates of physical …
Proposal: Creation Of Bio-Habitat, Zhang Ailing
Proposal: Creation Of Bio-Habitat, Zhang Ailing
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Harlem Watershed Neighborhood Landscape Intervention, Mateus Iamarino
Harlem Watershed Neighborhood Landscape Intervention, Mateus Iamarino
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Mapping Intensities, Leilei Wu
Mapping Intensities, Leilei Wu
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Birdscape, Joshua Stevens
Birdscape, Joshua Stevens
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Initial Conditions And Analysis - Accumulation And Subtraction, J.D. Mcclanahan
Initial Conditions And Analysis - Accumulation And Subtraction, J.D. Mcclanahan
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Social Ecologies Of Harlem Studio Board, Guangdi Yao
Social Ecologies Of Harlem Studio Board, Guangdi Yao
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
On/Off The Grid: Autocatalytic Ecologies, Rory Thibault
On/Off The Grid: Autocatalytic Ecologies, Rory Thibault
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Syllabus: Social Ecologies Of Harlem, Spring 2016, Jacqueline Margetts
Syllabus: Social Ecologies Of Harlem, Spring 2016, Jacqueline Margetts
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Urban Food Garden / Food Bank, Tianyi Zhang Meo
Urban Food Garden / Food Bank, Tianyi Zhang Meo
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Rainstorm Mosaic Park, 4732 Natural Bridge Ave, Yiran Zhang
Rainstorm Mosaic Park, 4732 Natural Bridge Ave, Yiran Zhang
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Intervention Proposal: Reinvestment In Eugene Tink Bradley Park, Ed Falkowski
Intervention Proposal: Reinvestment In Eugene Tink Bradley Park, Ed Falkowski
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Terra Cotta Studio, Tropical Space
Terra Cotta Studio, Tropical Space
Building Case Studies
the façade is made up of perforated brickwork patterns to allow the building to be open-air while creating spaces within for the artist to store and display work
Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center, Bau
Shanghai Hongqiao Performing Arts Center, Bau
Building Case Studies
Solid, brittle and transparent. Some level of reflective.